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Majority of Mexicans see United States as greatest threat
Dec 21, 2019 12:28A recent poll published by the Pew Research Center shows that 56 percent of Mexicans view the United States as the greatest threat to their country.
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World’s highest weather stations reveal Sun may be melting ice on Mount Everest
Dec 21, 2019 06:10The Himalayan region is often referred to as the “Third Pole,” because of the huge volume of ice present there. A groundbreaking report published earlier this year concluded that glaciers across the Hindu Kush Himalayan region could shrink in size by a third even if the ambitious 1.5°C global warming target is reached.
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US House impeaches Donald Trump in historic vote
Dec 21, 2019 06:07US President Donald Trump’s election has polarized the United States, dividing families and friends and making it more difficult for politicians in Washington to find middle ground as they try to confront pressing challenges like climate change.
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Yalda, the longest night
Dec 21, 2019 05:59The sunset of the 30th of the Iranian month of Aazar marks the longest night of the year. Iranians have been marking this occasion since old times. They call it Yalda. This night is celebrated with recitation of epic poems of Shahnameh or lyric poems of Hafez and Sa’adi. This is accompanied by eating nuts and fruits.
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After dire year, memory chips poised for strong 2020
Dec 20, 2019 15:43The memory chip market, mired in a brutal downturn throughout 2019, seems to have bottomed out amid signs that inventories are dropping and demand is rising, indicating a brighter year for the sector in 2020.These, at least, are the findings of analysts and reports, which cite rising uptake of 5G as a 2020 boost, as well as increased investments by the “Big Five” global tech firms, and a projected uptick in the PC market.
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Trump’s North America trade deal is poised to worsen climate change
Dec 20, 2019 15:41Climate advocates point to the growing problem of “outsourced” pollution — where wealthier countries like the United States and Japan take credit for improving their own domestic environmental standards, while then importing more goods from heavy-polluting countries. Critics say the current draft of USMCA does nothing meaningful to address this problem.
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Tragedies of the Afghan war
Dec 20, 2019 15:37Previously classified memos dubbed the “Afghanistan Papers” containing 2,000 pages of interviews with senior US officials and others directly involved in the war effort have now revealed how public perceptions on the war were constructed and fed to the American people in a bid to hide the dark side of this misadventure.
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Iran eyes strong ties with Algeria under new president Tebboune
Dec 20, 2019 15:29Iran and Algeria's brotherly relations are deeply rooted and go back to the 1960s. Soon after Algeria’s independence from France in 1962, Iran was among the first countries to recognize it as an independent nation, opening the Iranian embassy in autumn of 1964, in Algiers.
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The Afghanistan war is more than a $1 trillion mistake; It's a travesty
Dec 20, 2019 15:22“The United States has so far doled out nearly one trillion dollars for the war in Afghanistan (the true cost of the war will be trillions more) and everyone’s on the take: from defense industry executives, lobbyists and US political campaign coffers to poppy farmers to anyone and anything in between”, says Ben Armbruster, the managing editor of ResponsibleStatecraft.org, the news and analysis publishing platform of the Quincy Institute. This article has been published in the Guardian.
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(Chapter 4) Main Revolutionary Ideal: Establishment of New Civilization in 2nd Phase of the Islamic Revolution (4)
Dec 20, 2019 15:21Welcome to another episode of our series “Main Revolutionary Ideal: Establishment of New Civilization in 2nd Phase of the Islamic Revolution”.